Courses
Course descriptions and schedules offered below are a helpful guide to find courses offered by the department.
This listing is not meant to replace the official course catalog maintained by the University Registrar.
ARTEDUC 1600
Art and Music Since 1945
A survey of the visual arts and music in the western world since 1945, based on live and recorded performances and exhibitions.
GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.
ARTEDUC 2100
Introduction to Arts Management
This Introduction to Arts Management is a survey of non-profit and for profit arts management topics and issues. Students will examine members of the creative sector in various fields within the arts and cultural sector and what their impact is on the global marketplace. Using scholarly articles and various media, students will identify examples of these individuals around the world.
ARTEDUC 2250
Introduction to Art Education
Ideas, issues, and career possibilities in art education explored through readings, dialogue, and site visitation.
Prereq: Pre-Art Education major, or student planning to apply to the Art Education Core Program.
ARTEDUC 2550
Introduction to Visual Culture: Seeing and Being Seen
An introduction to issues of representation, spectacle, surveillance, and voyeurism, explored through a range of visual images and sites.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 255. GE cultures and ideas and diversity soc div in the US course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
ARTEDUC 2600
Visual Culture: Representation and Society
A study of social and cultural issues through the exploration of visual culture. By developing practical methods of interpreting and researching visual artistic production and reception, this course provides critical tools for engaging with how diverse forms of visual culture both challenge stereotypes and biases and also celebrate the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of US democratic society.
Prereq: EduTL 1902, or 1902.04, or IELP WRITE score of 80, or English Placement Level 4. Not open to students with credit for 2367.01, 2367.01H, or 2600H. GE writing and comm course: level 2 and VPA and diversity soc div in the US course. GE foundation writing and info literacy and lit, vis and performing arts and race, ethnicity and gender div course.
ARTEDUC 2700
Understanding Television
Understanding and critical written analysis and discussion of television, through viewing, discussing, reading, and writing. Students will focus on the ways in which racial, ethnic, and gender diversity issues are represented on television and media.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2367.03, Theatre 2367.03, or 2700. GE writing and comm course: level 2 and diversity soc div in the US course. GE foundation writing and info literacy and race, ethnicity and gender div course. Cross-listed in Theatre.
ARTEDUC 3680
Exploring the Creative Industry: Arts Issues in the 21st Century
Explores the relationships within the creative sector; Artistic workforce, contemporary art trends, organizational structure and variety within the industries.
Prereq: 2100. Not open to students without credit for 2100 who are also enrolled in the Arts Management program.
ARTEDUC 3681
Managing Non-profit Arts Organizations: Balancing Continuity & Change
Introduces the purposes of non-profit organizations and their functions such as governance, program planning, marketing, and fundraising; encourages critical thinking in managerial decision making through practical assignments.
Prereq: 2100. Not open to students without credit for 2100 who are also enrolled in the Arts Management program.
ARTEDUC 3900
Art & Curriculum Concepts for Teachers
Problems of teaching in terms of personal knowledge about art, insight into children's art work, and understanding of elementary school curriculum.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 600. Not open to art education teacher-candidates. Admis Cond course.
ARTEDUC 4000
Critical Pedagogies in Art Education
Investigating the interrelationship of social and visual cultural issues and their impact on the curriculum and teaching practice.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 4100
Multi-age Visual Art Education Methods
Interpreting and writing critically about contemporary art, methods, and strategies that enhance student artmaking.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 4189.02
Teaching Practicum: Pre K-12
Field-based teaching practicum at the prekindergarten through Grade 12 levels.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 786 or 787. Admis Cond course.
ARTEDUC 4191
Barnett Internship
Students intern at non-public school sites to synthesize and apply what they have learned in the classroom through concentrated practice in the field.
Prereq: Jr standing or above, and permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 4193
Individual Studies
Individual studies and project work in specified problems in the field of art education.
Prereq: Written permission. Not open to students with credit for 493. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 4200
Curriculum and Assessment in Art Education
This course explores self-efficacy in teaching roles, to expose students to curriculum development and planning by examining what curriculum is, how teachers develop ideas for curriculum, how to develop relevant and meaningful curriculum, and how to incorporate the various components and possibilities of art education into curriculum plans.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 4300
Professional Practice in Art Education
History of the field with an emphasis on major ideas in philosophy and learning theory that affect current trends.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 4400
Disability and Inclusive Practices in Art Education
Strategies that can be used in teaching art to students with special needs and lesson planning for inclusion.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 4500
Clinical Experience
Contact with practicum sites and collaborative work with cooperating teachers to plan and deliver instruction.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 689. Admis Cond course.
ARTEDUC 4900
Teaching Seminar
Concurrent to teaching practicum.
Prereq: Art Education Licensure students, or permission of instructor. Admis Cond course.
ARTEDUC 4998
Creative Activity in Art Education: Undergraduate Scholarship
Undergraduate scholarship.
Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 2 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 4999
Thesis Research
A program of reading and research arranged for each student, with individual conferences and reports and thesis.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 2 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 5367
Native American Arts, Education, and Representations
Introduces broad range of issues, theories, and practices of visual culture within the gaze of American Indians and how reaction to or rejection shapes indigenous identities, as well as non-Native understandings of American Indians. This course will explore action research practices, historical research methodologies, and critical readings.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3367.
ARTEDUC 5470.01
Contemporary Art, Learning, and Public Practice
This course will engage with museum studies frameworks, contemporary application, assorted texts, applied tactics, and techniques of teaching and learning and public practices in contemporary public art spaces. Students will explore the myriad ways programming, teaching, learning, engagement, curating, service, function and intersect in the museum and other public arts and cultural spaces.
ARTEDUC 5670
Public Policy and the Arts
Introduction to the purposes, rationales, interests, issues, political dynamics, and performance of agency/programs in the U.S. cultural policy system.
ARTEDUC 5671
Organizational Leadership in the Nonprofit Arts
Students will be assisted in enhancing their knowledge and ability to take responsible leadership roles in non-profit arts organizations and as a major constituent of public arts agencies.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 671.
ARTEDUC 5672
Managing Cultural Policy Change
Planning and executing strategic change in public arts agencies. Explores implications of shifting from a supply/demand to a value-based cultural policy paradigm.
Prereq: Not open to student with credit for 672.
ARTEDUC 5674
The Creative Sector and Creative Cities
Examines policy experiences of U.S. and other countries pertaining to the composition, workforce, and support systems of the creative industries across non-profit, commercial, community, and embedded settings.
ARTEDUC 5675
International Cultural Relations
Explores cultural exchange as a policy tool of international cultural engagement, nation branding, and cultural diplomacy. Also considers international festival and exhibitions, cultural trade, and international collaboration.
ARTEDUC 5677
Contemporary Issues in International Cultural Policy
This course offers a cross-cultural and international perspective on recent debates within the field of cultural policy and seeks to enhance students' global understanding of cultural policy-making processes. Students will discuss a wide range of methodological and analytical issues surrounding international cultural policy.
ARTEDUC 5681
Black Art in America: Arts and Cultural Policies from Reconstruction to Afrofuturism
This course takes a unique approach in how arts management, arts entrepreneurship, cultural production, and cultural organizations are studied. This is done by looking at the decisions made, and practices and policies employed, by Black Americans in the arts throughout the complex, and often problematic, history of the United States.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for AfAmASt 5681. Cross-listed in AfAmASt.
ARTEDUC 5682
Nonprofit Arts Institution Governance and Board Leadership
Research-based, practical exploration of nonprofit boards critically examines governance policies and practices; specifically focusing on management, board and staff relations and issues of accountability.
ARTEDUC 5683
Developing Arts Careers: Positioning Passion
Prepares students as entrepreneurs to enter nonprofit, commercial, public and/or academic careers through independent investigation, dossier development, research proposals, and grant writing.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 683.
ARTEDUC 5684
Arts Participation, Cultural Literacy, and Audience Development
Building on empirical and theoretical research, this course constructs a framework to understand audience participation, understanding and reception of specific art forms.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 781.
ARTEDUC 5685
Arts/Cultural Organizations: Resource Management & Revenue Streams
An analysis of current issues in resource management and revenue streams available to arts & cultural organizations, and its application to marketing and development practice.
ARTEDUC 5686
Cultural Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Research of program theory, design, and their application implementation.
ARTEDUC 5687
Social World of the Arts
We often think about the arts as primarily aesthetic endeavors, but the social world around the creation, production, distribution, and reception of art are key in understanding the role of art and of artists in society. In this class, students will use a sociological lens to examine how individuals and groups create, produce, distribute, and consume art.
ARTEDUC 5688
Marketing, Communications, & Social Media in Nonprofit Arts Institutions
This class focuses on strategies for identifying and developing relationships between audiences/visitors and nonprofit arts institutions through the use of digital technology, specifically social media.
ARTEDUC 5795
Seminar on Topical Issues in Art Education.
Seminar on topical issues in Art Education.
Repeatable to a maximum of 30 cr hrs.
ARTEDUC 6000
Reflective Practice, Research, and Portfolio
This is a series of 6 credits to supplement students' coursework in the Online MA in Art Education program. Students document their journey in the MA program through the creation of a blog, cultivate reflective practice through exercises that supplement coursework, and develop research skills as practitioner-researchers in an art teacher's classroom, a museum setting, or a community arts space.
Prereq: Enrollment in the Online MA Art Education Program. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 7 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 6998
Research for Non-thesis
Research for non-thesis purposes only.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 27 cr hrs. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 6999
Research for Thesis
Research for thesis purposes only.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 27 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 7000.1
Concepts, Theories, and Issues in Art Education
Review of analytical reading and writing; overview of topics for art education research; graduate faculty research; national and international issues; research resources. Must be taken during the first year of graduate study.
ARTEDUC 7000.2
Concepts, Theories, and Issues in Arts/Culture Policy
Review of analytical reading and writing; overview of topics for arts policy & admin. research; graduate faculty research; national and international issues; research resources. Must be taken during the first year of graduate study.
ARTEDUC 7000.3
Issues, Frameworks and Theories for Art Educators
This course is a required introductory course in Art Education. In this online course, we will critically analyze articles that provide an overview of topics for art education research; graduate faculty research; national and international issues, and research resources.
ARTEDUC 7100
Histories and Policies of Arts Education
Students explore arts/education history while developing skills in researching cultural practices, programs and protocols, and analyzing the impact of arts programs/initiatives and social interventions on citizens and communities.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 701 or 704.
ARTEDUC 7200.1
Introduction to Research Methodologies and Methods
Introduction to research philosophies, methodologies and methods in arts education, policy, and administration.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 705.
ARTEDUC 7200.2
Overview of Research Planning for Arts Policy & Administration
Introduction to a range of research resources and methods applicable to APA students including historical, case studies, surveys & interviews. Using the literature to frame research questions, build a conceptual framework and inform research plan.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 705 or 809.
ARTEDUC 7200.3
Overview of Research for Arts Educators
Introduction to a broad range of qualitative educational research methodologies in the field of art education, mainly in an art teacher's classroom, a museum setting, or community arts space. Includes research terminology and methodologies, data collection methods, and discusses the power of teachers as researchers in their own classrooms. Practices collecting and analyzing data.
ARTEDUC 7300
Introduction to Teaching Arts Education at the College Level
An introduction to theories, methods and issues related to teaching arts education at the college level.
Prereq: New or recently reassigned ARTEDUC GTAs, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 707.
ARTEDUC 7500
Barnett Field School
The Barnett Field School is a team-led workshop that will engage students directly with timely matters and challenges affecting arts and artists across the state of Ohio, and with cultural leaders working to address those challenges. Students will engage with and work toward producing data and evidence that can help inform the work of cultural leaders.
This course is open to Barnett Fellows only.
Repeatable to a maximum of 8 cr hrs.
ARTEDUC 7604
Teaching of Studio Activities
Exploration of instructional application of various art materials for educational settings.
ARTEDUC 7606
Technology and Digital Texts
Theory and practice of engaging others in technologies and digital texts relative to art education practice.
ARTEDUC 7607
Curriculum Planning and Assessment in Art Education
Introduction to curriculum development including artmaking practices and assessment strategies.
ARTEDUC 7681
Arts/Cultural Institutions, Organizational Theories & Management Practice
Building on organizational theories, this course examines the purpose and function of arts and cultural institutions and current management practices in the creative sector.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 681.
ARTEDUC 7701
Contemporary Theory and Art Education
Investigation of contemporary theory from an interdisciplinary perspective and the implications for art education.
ARTEDUC 7707
Action Research, Theory and Practice
Exploration of action research theories and practices in school, community, and organizational settings.
ARTEDUC 7708
Universal Design for Learning: Disability Studies and Art Education
This course explores Universal Design for Learning in Art Education for the purposes of enhancing the learning experiences of students with disabilities and all learners and makes practical applications to classroom experiences.
ARTEDUC 7709
Arts-Based Education Research Approaches
Survey a range of arts-based research methods in the multiple arts and education fields. Explore/develop and analyze innovations in data gathering, analyses, performance/presentation and publication.
ARTEDUC 7711
Designing and Writing Research Proposals
This course is designed to assist in understanding the nature and purpose of the dissertation proposal as well as the strategies necessary to conceive of it and construct it.
ARTEDUC 7712
Field Methods
Students will learn to collect and analyze qualitative data from participant observation and in-depth interviews. Each student will gain significant experience designing, conducting, analyzing, and writing up their own independent research.
ARTEDUC 7725
Re-imagining Research Writing Through Creative Inquiry
This trans-disciplinary writing seminar encourages graduate researchers to develop a philosophy and practice of writing that reflects a full range of scholarly expression. Beginning with a review of expository writing, students engage with the theory and practice of shaping new ways to conceive of and write scholarly research in their respective disciplines.
ARTEDUC 7735
Art Museum History, Theory, and Practices
Critical examination of the historic and theoretical foundations of art and other museums as an institution, drawing on multiple disciplinary perspectives. Counts toward Museum Education specialization.
ARTEDUC 7736
Teaching and Learning in Art Museums
A theoretical and practical study of teaching and learning in and through museums. Counts toward Museum Education specialization.
ARTEDUC 7748
Art Museum Education & Administration Practicum
An examination of the role of education in art museums through an in-depth experience in a museum setting. Counts toward Museum Education specialization.
ARTEDUC 7767
Critical Analysis of Multicultural Art Education
Investigation and analysis of multicultural theories, issues, and practices for art education.
Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 767.
ARTEDUC 7775
Social and Cultural Theories in Art and Art Education
Critical investigation of theoretical, artistic, and pedagogical concepts related to diversity.
Prereq: 7200.10, or permission of instructor.
ARTEDUC 7777
Research to Advocacy
This course engages practicing arts educators in developing effective advocacy strategies, arguments and approaches grounded in reliable research and assessment measures. Educators clearly communicating these measures can effectively leverage them in persuading administrators, parents and policy makers to energetically support and advance the critical work of arts education.
ARTEDUC 7795
Seminar on Topical Issues in Art Education
Seminar on Topical Issues in Art Education.
Repeatable to a maximum of 30 cr hrs.
ARTEDUC 8191.01
Internship in Arts Management
Supervised professional experience in performing arts, visual arts, literary arts, or museum/historical organization.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8191.02
Art and Cultural Policy Internship
Supervised professional experience in government arts or a cultural agency at any level - local, state, regional, national, or international - or within a trade or professional association engaged in arts advocacy.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8191.03
Internship: Engaging with Art Museums & Communities
Supervised professional experience within a museum or public gallery that provides educational services.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8191.04
Community Arts Internship
Supervised professional experience in a community setting that provides programs addressing arts education.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8193
Individual Studies
Individual Studies.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 cr hrs or 3 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8998
Research for Candidacy Examination
Research for candidacy examination.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 27 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.
ARTEDUC 8999
Research for Dissertation
Research for dissertation purposes only.
Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 27 cr hrs or 9 completions. This course is graded S/U.